Sentences with phrase «like chaff»

But with the invention of the combine harvester, the practice of sprouting grains was cast aside, like the chaff on a threshing floor, and with it, the valuable vitamins and minerals that the sprouting process produced — nutrients that had once naturally fortified flour.

Men winnow the faults of others like chaff; their own they hide as a crafty gambler hides a losing throw.»

The sovereign pleasure of God, for the present, stays his rough wind; otherwise it would come with fury, and your destruction would come like a whirlwind, and you would be like the chaff of the summer threshing floor.

Not exact matches

Like you say, it's kind of removing the wheat from the chaff here; this is going to be one of those times where somebody is going to step up to the plate big - time and make a lot of money.

It would create a draft of air to blow the chaff off, and could be used like a shovel to toss the grain.

Sifting flour used to be necessary to separate out things like bugs or chaff (husk of corn or seeds).

There are so many Arsenal transfer rumours popping up every single day that it is difficult to have any real idea of who our real transfer targets are, and everything just looks like smoke and mirrors to me at the moment as we try and sift our way through the chaff.

There's nothing like an intense derby match to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Aside from the fact that this can lead to general overheating concerns, it can also create secondary heating concerns like sweating which can cause chaffing, rashes, and other issues.

Naturally, when you Google for wheat, a lot of chaff pops up, like Winston Farm, the Mohonk Preserve, the Kingston watershed in Woodstock, lots of sites in the Catskill Park.

Several brave soles were biking in red speedos which was quite brave because it was FREEZING and also because of the chaffing a 600 mile trip like this causes.

wonderful I fully agree.To me economics, like many things in life, is all about unbiased observations, unprejudiced perceptions, doing away with defensive statistical justifications, cutting off camouflaging irrelevant logical fallacies, chaffing off bombastic jargons, curtailing the instinct to churn out untested or untestable theories and instead engage in interpretations of all the observed facts uninfluenced by any ideological affiliations taking into consideration various factors that impact and / or involved in these facts appropriate to the context and relevant to the region.

When your prepurchase inspection involves a list of 36 detailed questions (and your undercarriage viewing process is «like, a 3,500 - point inspection»), the wheat separates from the chaff fairly quickly.

Like any young woman coming of age Victoria chaffed against the constraints her mother placed on her.

Others, like Donald Maass, rail against self - publishing in general, on the grounds that it produces far more chaff than wheat (Writer Unboxed, «The new class system,» February 5, 2014.)

Eventually someone is going to come up with a way to help readers support indie authors by culling the wheat from the chaff — without turning that service into a gatekeeper, like the trad publishers have unfortunately become.

Like many of the previous commenters, I was looking for some new insights on the genuine problem of sorting the wheat from the chaff of eBooks.

Been experimenting with a spreadsheet that takes @yahoofinance news, and weeds out the chaff, I like it; improves quality, takes work $ $ Jul 03, 2012

Designed to help holidaymakers sort the wheat from the chaff, the Languedoc Beach Report tells it like it is.

With so much competition between the dive shops on the island we try to stand out by having the smallest student to instructor ratio, dive computers for all student courses and qualified fun divers, 15 litre tanks for those who like extra air, long 3 mm wetsuits as well as the usual shorty suits and 5 mm dive booties and open heel fins rather than the full foot fins to prevent the chaffing and blisters which would otherwise occur.

I don't like spending most of my time separating the wheat from the chaff.

Looks to me like there's some strong indie goodness going on here, though as remarked later, it'll be interesting to see how the wheat / chaff separation is done - maybe we can help on GamerBytes.

The bright spots of the story campaign, like a boss fight that has you catapulting yourself across an arena to dunk electric orbs, are dragged down by the chaff.

And another thing on «peer review», You hold up this to be the arbiter of the truth, when it is merely intended to sort good science papers from bad papers, to sort the wheat form the chaff, like revewing a pile of job applications.

I also want to comment on your statement, «Although organizations like CanLII have done a wonderful job making newer case law accessible and searchable, it can be incredibly challenging for even highly educated laypeople to separate the wheat from the chaff and find relevant case law illuminating and elucidating the text of statute law.»

It can be very difficult, however, for counsel and court to separate the wheat from the chaff; one glossy brochure with photographs of smiling children and sunrises looks very much like another.

The bad thing is that, just like everything else on the web, it can be hard to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Like most antivirus software, Bitdefender uses an extensive database of malware signatures, updated multiple times a day, to separate the digital wheat from the chaff.

Relative to real estate; separating the wheat from the chaff, the cheese from the whey, and the butter from the buttermilk... Like water seeks its own level, success in real estate just «happens.»

Sites like BP do a great job of separating the wheat from the chaff and making real estate investing possible for those that want it.